Contemporary Art
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Tiara (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$240 Sale Price
40% Off
It's gonna be ok - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It's gonna be ok (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 202...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nothing to do with my will (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nothing to do with my Will (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Circle of Magic - A Wish II (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporar
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'A Wish II' (Circle of Magic) - from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2009
40x50cm,
Edition 1/10
Digital C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - The Princess and her Lover
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Princess and her Lover, 2007
Edition of 10, 20x24cm,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
$287 Sale Price
20% Off
Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
20x65cm including the white frame.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the original Polaroid.
C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - Beachshoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' by Stefanie Schneider
(Beachshoot) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory Nr. 898.08, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Circle of Magic (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Landscape, Magic
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic -
from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2009
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Male Nude VI (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude in Bathroom (29 Palms, CA), - 1999,
Edition 1/10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, 20x20cm,
digital C-Print,
Not mounted, based on a Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate, Art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
20x24cm,
Edition 6/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #2823.06.
Not m...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer II (Till Death do us Part) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer II' (Till Death do Us part), 2005 -
128x126 cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid,
Certific...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$4,900 Sale Price
30% Off
Disco Queen (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Disco Queen (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Because I am (Stage of Consciousness) featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Because I am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
featuring Radha Mitchell
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wonder Wheel (Stay) - analog, vintage print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Circle of Magic - Spellbound (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic - Spellbound (29 Palms, CA) - 2009,
20x24cm,
Edition 8/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #5919.08. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Once we were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Once we were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
from the 29 Palms, CA project.
58x56cm, Edition 1/5.
Analog C-Print hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Certifi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Village - heated Pool (The Last Picture Show), analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Village Motel - Heated Pool (The Last Picture Show) - 2005
58x56cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Chrystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels), 2005
50x39cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
artist Inventory No. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer - based on a Polaroid Original - Proof
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
Proof b4 Printing / 128x125cm
signed, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid,
signed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Whisky and Water VI (Sidewinder) - Diptych, Polaroid, Nude, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Whisky and Water VI (Sidewinder), diptych - 2005
24x20cm each,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the 2 original Polaroids.
Signature label and certif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
150, 000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
150,000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Ce...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (City of Industry)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (City of Industry) - 2004
38x36cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signatur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica) - 1999
Edition 3/10,
44x59cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Moments in Time (Sidewinder) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Moments in Time (Sidewinder) - 2008
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #3331
Not mounted.
Stef...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$266 Sale Price
30% Off
How can you say that (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
How can you say that (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Primary Colors - Contemporary, Icons, Polaroid, Photograph, expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Primary Colors' (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001
each 20x20cm plus 5 cm in between each print together,
70x70cm,
sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2,
Archival C-Print print,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Autumn Drift (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, analog, landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Autumn Drift (The Last Picture Show) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Minis 'Radha Mind Screen' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
3 Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Minis
'Radha Mind Screen' - 1999 - triptych
signed in front, not mounted.
3 Digital Color Photographs based on the 3 Polaroids.
10.7...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Village Motel Sunset (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Icons
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Village Motel Sunset (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2 (the very last from this edition),
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Million Dead End Streets (Stage of Consciousness) - featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Million Dead End Streets (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
40x40cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Betrayal (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Betrayal - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #723.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Magic Mountain III (Memories of Green)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Mountain III (Memories of Green) - 2003
Edition of 10,
58x56cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper.
based on an expired Polaroid, Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$1,400 Sale Price
30% Off
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20 cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature Label
Artist Inventory No. 481
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The End of Love (29 Palms, CA) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The End of Love - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 -
Edition 1/10 ,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 4898.13.
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Playgirl (Heavenly Falls)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Playgirl (Heavenly Falls) 2016,
50x50cm, Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19598.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$560 Sale Price
30% Off
'Happy Days' from Till Death do us Part with Daisy McCrackin based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Happy Days (Till Death do Us part) - 2005
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, this is Artist Proof 2/2.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fog (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, analog, landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fog (The Last Picture Show) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20273.
Signature label ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #6328
Not mounted.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cabazon Dinosaurs (Drive to the Desert)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cabazon Dinosaurs (Drive to the Desert) - 2000
44x59cm,
Edition 5/5.
Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #155.05.
Not mount...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Buried - 8 pieces - Contemporary, Figurative, expired, Polaroid, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
38x36cm each, 90x175cm installed.
8 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive P...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 4600.
Signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Primary Colors - Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape, USA, Polaroid, Flag
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Primary Colors (Stranger than Paradise) - 2001
Edition 1/5,
9 pieces, each 48x47cm, installed 159x156cm including
5 cm gap in between each piece.
9 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Magic Mountain 12 (Memories of Green) - based on a Polaroid, analog, 21st Centur
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Mountain 12 (Memories of Green),
Edition 1/5 , 58x56cm, 2003
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory Nu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Breathing I (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breathing I (Deconstructing) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 15835.
Signature...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Love Scene against the Wall from Sidewinder
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Love Scene against the Wall" (Sidewinder) - 2007,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
4 x 20x20cm, 20 x 100 cm installed with gaps in between each piec...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
Fairytales (diptych) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fairytales (dyptych) - 2006
Edition of 30,
38x36cm each, 38x85cm installed, including gaps.
2 Archival Prints based on 2 Polaroids.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Oilfields) - Contemporary, Men, 21st Century, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004
50x50cm, Edition of 10,
Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # 1222.
Not mounted.
OILFIELDS, 2004
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005
Edition of 5,
156x125cm.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 3094.
Not mounted.
"...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$3,515 Sale Price
30% Off
Waiting II (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Waiting II' (Sidewinder) - 2004
80x80cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
artist Inventory # 303...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$2,100 Sale Price
30% Off
Outtake (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outtake (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory Nu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Almost Paradise (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Analog, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Almost Paradise (Wastelands) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 894.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Reality with the Tequila:
Stefanie Schneider’s Fertile Wasteland
by James Scarborough
“How much more than enough
for you for I for both of us darling?”
(E. E. Cummings)
Until he met her, his destiny was his own. Petty and inconsequential but still his own. He was cocksure and free, young and unaccountable, with dark hair and aquiline features. His expression was always pensive, a little troubled, but not of a maniacal sort. He was more bored than anything else. With a heart capable of violence.
Until she met him, she was pretty but unappreciated. Her soul had registered no seismic activity. Dustbowl weary, she’d yet to see better days. A languorous body, a sweet face with eyes that could be kind if so inclined.
Until she met him, she had not been inclined.
It began when he met her. She was struck in an instant by his ennui. The sum of their meeting was greater than the imbroglios and chicaneries of their respective existences. He was struck by the blank slate look in her eyes. They walked, detached and focused on the immediate, obscenely unaware of pending change across a terrain of mountainous desert, their eyes downcast and world-weary, unable to account for the buoyant feeling in her heart. His hard-guy shtick went from potentiality to ruse. The gun was not a weapon but a prop, a way to pass time. Neither saw the dark clouds massing on the horizon.
They found themselves alone in the expanses of time, unaware of the calamity that percolated even as they posed like school kids for the pictures. Happiness brimmed in that wild terrain. Maybe things were beginning to look up.
That’s when the shooting started…
Stefanie Schneider assumes that our experience of lived reality (buying groceries, having a relationship with someone, driving a car) does not correspond to the actual nature of lived reality itself, that what we think of as reality is more like a margarita without the tequila.
Stefanie Schneider’s reality is reality with the tequila. She does not abolish concepts that orient us, cause and effect, time, plot, and storyline, she just plays with them. She invites us to play with them, too. She offers us a hybrid reality, more amorphous than that with a conventional subject, verb, and predicate. Open-ended, this hybrid reality does not resolve itself. It frustrates anyone with pedestrian expectations but once we inebriate those expectations away, her work exhilarates us and even the hangover is good. An exploration of how she undermines our expectation of what we assume to be our lived reality, the reasons why she under- mines our expectations, and the end result, as posited in this book, will show how she bursts open our apparatus of perception and acknowledges life’s fluidity, its density, its complexity. Its beauty.
She undermines expectations of our experience of reality with odd, other-worldly images and with startling and unexpected compressions and expansions of time and narrative sequence. The landscape seems familiar enough, scenes from the Old West: broad panoramic vistas with rolling hills dotted with trees and chaparral, dusty prairies with trees and shrubs and craggy rocks, close-up shots of trees. But they’re not familiar. These mis-en-scenes radiate an unsettling Picasso Blue Period glow or the intense celestial blue of the cafe skies that Van Gogh painted in the south of France. Yellow starbursts punctuate images as if seen through the viewfinder of a flying saucer. At the same time, objects appear both vintage and futuristic, the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
Landscapes change seemingly at random as do the seasons. Stefanie Schneider offers no indication of how time flows here, except that it conceivably turns in on itself and then goes its merry way. Time is a river whose source is a deep murky spring which blusters about with an occasional swirling eddy.
That Stefanie Schneider thwarts an easy reading is obvious but why does she do this? Since she will not countenance anything linear, logical, or sequential, and because she does not relish anything concrete and specific, she has to roil things up a bit. Nor does she seem comfortable with a book of images that is settled, discrete, and accountable. Instead she wants to create a panoply of anxious moments...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Wish (Circle of Magic) from the 29 Palms, CA project - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Wish (Circle of Magic) from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2009
57x70cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid
Certificate and signature label.
Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic - Shazam (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
50x60cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 2823.
Signature lab...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - analog, not mounted, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - 4 pieces, 2003
Edition of 5,
105x100cm each, 220x220cm installed.
Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$7,700 Sale Price
30% Off
Angie - Heavenly Falls - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, Woman, bath
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Angie' (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid from the making of the documentary "instant dreams".
Certificate and signature labe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hallway II (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hallway I (Suburbia) 2004, 40x40cm, Edition of 2/5,
analog C-Print based, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,
Based on a Polaroid. Signature label with Certif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$669 Sale Price
30% Off
Actor Girl II (29 Palms, CA)- including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Actor Girl II (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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